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Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

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AI models used ancient zircons to reveal Earth’s earliest crust chemistry, solving a long-standing geologic mystery. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the ...

Each year, the solid-iron inner core at the heart of our planet expands by about a millimeter as the Earth’s nether regions cool and solidify. According to a recent study, one side appears to be ...

As lithium becomes more critical, powering everything from electric vehicles to cruise missiles, demand is skyrocketing for ...

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